hardness

Examples

• All

• "They can help kids prepare themselves for the hardness of life.

  Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

• Sometimes other mothers' eagle eyes caught the children at their play, and Lapa had to defend her daughter, saying, "Let them learn a little of the hardness of the world; they'll have to learn it soon enough."

  Fiction book (1995)

• And that's the hardness of this kind of problems.

• The hardness of life, the rough fabric of it, pushed me onto this path, and yet sustenance appears, woven in with this red-orange ache.

  Blog text (26)

• What we now suffer in economics is a hardness of intellect, a meanness of spirit, a narrowness of vision, and a rigidity of thinking that utterly distorts the role of what economics in our society should be.

  Blog text (34)

• Many students struggle with the hardness of advanced mathematics, finding it challenging to grasp complex concepts.

• Facing the hardness of difficult situations can build resilience and teach valuable life lessons.

Synonyms

D

difficulty

vshardness

651 2.4

A hard part of a task that needs extra effort or is not easy to understand

is the wider concept that includes doing, understanding, and solving problems

C

complexity

vshardness

166 5.0

Many connected parts make something hard to understand

is the broader sense of difficulty, not only caused by many parts

T

toughness

vshardness

14 3.5

A situation or task that is hard to deal with

is the wider quality of being difficult beyond resistance, including understanding and solving

E

elusiveness

vshardness

3 7.4

Hard to find or understand

is the broader sense of being difficult, not only about finding or catching

T

trickiness

vshardness

1 5.4

Being difficult to deal with and needing skill or care

is the broader difficulty concept without implying required special skill or caution

D

difficultness

vshardness

7.0

How hard something is to do, deal with, or understand

is the broader general quality covering many kinds of effortful problems

K

knottiness

vshardness

9.4

A quality that makes something hard to understand or solve

is the broader quality of being difficult without insisting on extreme intricacy

A

abstrusity

vshardness

• Formal

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex

is the general difficulty quality, not limited to deep or obscure subjects

I

impenetrability

vshardness

9.9

Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated

is the general quality of being difficult rather than practically impossible

R

ruggedness

vshardness

6.8

Being difficult and needing a lot of effort or skill

is the general notion of difficulty, not focused on demanding physical tasks

I

intractableness

vshardness

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to manage or control

is the general quality of difficulty, not limited to problems of control

Antonyms

E

ease

304 1.0

A state of comfort and freedom from worry

S

simplicity

63 1.7

Being easy to understand and not complicated

How Difficult

impossibility

37 5.3

hardness

5.3

difficulty

651 2.4

ease

304 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology